| Children of the Sun | |
| Type: | Studio |
| Artist: | Billy Thorpe |
| Cover: | Billy Thorpe - Children Of The Sun.jpg |
| Released: | 1979 |
| Recorded: | Pasha Music House, Hollywood, California |
| Genre: | Rock, funk, pop, soul |
| Length: | 37:53 |
| Label: | Polydor Records, Capricorn Records, CBS Records |
| Producer: | Spencer Proffer |
| Prev Title: | Pick Me Up and Play Me Loud |
| Prev Year: | 1976 |
| Next Title: | 21st Century Man |
| Next Year: | 1980 |
Children of the Sun is the third studio album by Australian musician Billy Thorpe, released in 1979. The album spawned the singles "Wrapped in the Chains of Your Love", "Goddess of the Night", "Children of the Sun" and "Simple Life". The album peaked at number 44 on the Kent Music Report.
The album was Thorpe's debut album in the United States of America.
In 1987, the album was partially reissued as Children of the Sun...Revisited, featuring 5 songs from the original album, plus 3 newly recorded tracks for the compilation, with "East of Eden's Gate" as the closing track.
Cash Box magazine called the album "an ambitious rock project" saying "Side one is a fairly mainstream set of guitar rock numbers, but side two is an imaginative, fantasy-like concept work which depicts the massive transporting of human life on Earth to a new destiny in outer space."[1]
Credits;
Production
The title track was used in episodes of the second season of the Fargo television series.